SD Deacon Corp. v. Gaston

How courts have described this case

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• observing that “[t]he lien procedure can be abused by persons who desire to encumber someone else's real property improvement without any real basis for doing so”
• observing that “[t]he summary procedure provided by the statute is not to be used as a substitute for trial where there is a legitimate dispute about the amount of work done and money paid” and that “[e]very frivolous lien is invalid, but not every invalid lien is frivolous”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).